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Public display of beheaded enemies is more Vlad the Impaler than rebel Time Lord. This is my reaction to Steven Moffat’s “swaggering bully” version of the Doctor. Handles is a beheaded Cyberman, reduced to a pet. Strax is an emasculated Sontaran commander. My fellow Whovians wouldn’t think these humiliations were so cute if his Vlad […]

A lot of bloggers liked this moment of “Into the Dalek”. Who Say described Clara’s slapping the Doctor “put this new, colder Doctor in his place”. Tech Times said it “Bravo for smacking some sense back into the Doctor right when he needed it.” The AV Club said “literally slaps sense into the Doctor”. I […]